AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

Post by AlchemistCamp » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 9:50 PM UTC

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #83

whalesalad wrote: post #37

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yep, and they should. aws has never really been suited to the hobbyist. does it work for that? of course. is it most cost effective? absolutely not. is it cost effective for people who need the resources? yes.

> is it cost effective for people who need the resources? yes. There is no possible use case in no possible universe where AWS is cost effective. Renting the same compute resources wholesale will cost you 20 times less. (Not a typo.)

Post by dijit » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 9:58 PM UTC

blibble wrote: post #89

xxpor wrote: post #82

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It's not really computationally expensive, it's memory expensive. You need per connection state.

it already has stateful firewall so that's: source ip, dest ip, protocol, source port, dest port, connection state (say 16 bytes total) doing NAT too is what, 3 more bytes per connection (8 bits for an offset into an IP table and 16 bits for the translated port)

Post by avereveard » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 10:02 PM UTC

decasia wrote: post #103

So I have a tiny personal website hosted on ec2. Right now the DNS points to the server's public IPv4 address. But I don't really want to pay $40+/year for an IPv4 for my personal project. Does anyone have experience switching a small personal site to IPv6 only in 2023? I'm guessing the vast majority of my (North American/European-based) friends and visitors can probably connect just fine to an IPv6 address. I wish I…

Post by dmattia » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 10:05 PM UTC

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #83

whalesalad wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yep, and they should. aws has never really been suited to the hobbyist. does it work for that? of course. is it most cost effective? absolutely not. is it cost effective for people who need the resources? yes.

> is it cost effective for people who need the resources? yes. There is no possible use case in no possible universe where AWS is cost effective. Renting the same compute resources wholesale will cost you 20 times less. (Not a typo.)

Post by pantalaimon » Thu, Aug 03, 2023, 10:06 PM UTC

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #98

madsbuch wrote: post #85

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Most applications will be able to move to v6 eventually. Hopefully moves like this will push that development.

Even already, I think you can get away with doing almost everything v6 with a much smaller number of ipv4s for legacy traffic. I say that but still largely use v4 for everything, so maybe I'm not one to talk.